Re: XeTeX encoding problem

[Masamichi HOSODA]

> Thanks for working on this. I'd like to avoid going back to the way it
> was done before if possible because this means that all the
> definitions of the Unicode characters are run through every time a
> macro is used. The following patch seems to give good results:
> 
> Index: doc/texinfo.tex
> ===================================================================
> --- doc/texinfo.tex     (revision 7047)
> +++ doc/texinfo.tex     (working copy)
> @@ -7823,7 +7823,9 @@
>    % backslash to get it printed correctly.
>    % FIXME: This may not be needed.
>    address@hidden \catcode`\\=\active \escapechar=`\@
> +  \passthroughcharstrue
>    \edef\temp{\noexpand\scanmacro{#1}}%
> +  \passthroughcharsfalse
>    \temp
>    \egroup
>  }
> 
> ===================
> 
> but I want to understand what the point of the \edef was in the first
> place, and what the point was of changing the catcode of backslash,
> and test whether this is still necessary. Hopefully I'll get to this
> soon.

Your patch works fine on my environment.
Thank you.